(I'm baack! Now please don't question me why I was always online, because I never log off DCW, even if I'm not using it!)
Chapter 6- At the Scene
Conan's POV
"Eeeehhh? Narita-neesan talked to you?"
Mitsuhiko and Genta were asking, no, interrogating me about my little talk with Narita.
"Well, yeah.." I said.
"And what did she say?!"
I was about to answer when I saw two familiar figures slink into an alley. "Um, I'll tell you later. Can you do me a favor? Please tell Kobayashi-sensei that I'll be absent today!"
"Uh, okay, Conan-kun, but-"
"Let him be." I heard Haibara say, immediately followed by a sneeze.
I ran into familiar alleyways and roads, and turned the final corner into the Mouri Detective Agency, where the two were just climbing up the stairs.
"Nara-neesan! Hiruno-neesan!" I called. They turned back, obviously surprised, and Ran went out of the room, book in hand.
"Ran-neechan! I thought you went to school!" I cried.
"I just went back here to get something, but what are you doing here, Conan-kun?"
"Um, I-"
"Ran-senpai! There you are!" said Nara, noticing Ran standing there. "I guess you already know about the case..."
"Hai! Narita-neesan told us about it." I said.
"We just wanted to ask a certain detective to go with us.." said Hiruno. I had this weird feeling that they were staring at me..
"Oh, otou-san's away!" said Ran.
"No, we meant him!" said Nara. I knew it..
"Um, okay!"
"But has cla-"
"It's okay, Ran-neechan. I told my friends to tell Kobayashi-sensei!" I said.
She sighed. "Fine. Well, I'll go to school now." she said, picking up her Mai Sango book and her bag. "Sayonara!"
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"Oi! Over here!"
Narita was waiting for us on the steps of Haido Mall. Police cars were parked everywhere, but she didn't seem to mind them. "I see you brought him. Ever since he solved that challenge of yours.." She trailed off.
"Well, let's go inside!" said Nara
"Oi! Don't forget us!" Ran and Occhan were standing behind us! How'd they get here so fast?
"I met up with otou-san on the streets and told him about the case. He begged me to take him here. Now it's his fault that I'm going to be late." said Ran.
"Uh, now can we go inside?"
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"Ah, Mouri-kun!" Megure-keibu was in front of a restaurant filled with police lines. "I suppose you're going to ask about the case." he said.
"Ah, hai!" said Occhan.
"Ah, well, the victim's name is Kitagawa Masayo-san, 29 years old. She was found dead in a bathroom cubicle with a broken window. This young lady took the victim's pulse." he said, indicating Narita.
"Ah, Narita-neesan? I thought you said that you were on your way to school, but why did you take the trouble of entering the mall?" I asked.
"Well, I went to the bathroom inside the mall. I was about to leave when I heard the scream." she answered.
"Ahem..Then, a woman forcefully entered the crime scene and had a little scuffle with the police." continued Megure-keibu.
"Was that woman Kameyama Riki-san?" I asked, remembering what Narita told us earlier.
"Yes. A crime photographer of some renown." he answered. "Would you like to see the crime scene, Mouri-kun?"
"Ah-" occhan started, but he was interrupted by the arrival of..
"Mouri-sensei! I came, as promised. So, how's the investigation?"
I turned and saw that Narita was speechless, wide-eyed and deathly pale. "So, Mouri-sama, this is your apprentice?" she asked in a small voice.
"Yes, Amuro-kun here is my apprentice." answered occhan.
"May I be excused?" asked Narita, and she promptly walked away. "Matte-yo! Narita!!" yelled the others, and they chased after her. "Who were they, Mouri-sensei?" he asked, although I think from Narita's reaction that he already knows who she is.
"Ah, those are the ones who wanted to be my apprentices." answered occhan.
"Ahem. Now, the crime scene?"
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"Ooohh."
A woman was lying down, lifeless, on a floor filled with glass shards from the above broken window. "Have you questioned whoever went into the bathroom after her?" I asked.
"There was just one: Kameyama Riki-san, the crime photographer I mentioned earlier. She's being questioned right now."
"So it's possible it's her.." I heard Ran mutter behind me.
"But would't she try to escape? The broken window could be a diversion. And it seems a little too simple: going into the bathroom, killing Masayo-san and simply walking away, ne? And this is a part of The Tottori Serial Murder Case last year because of the red car Narita-neesan showed us. If Riki-san was the killer, she would have to be in Tottori last year.She has never left Tokyo this year, so she's not the killer." I answered. After I said that, I wish I could have took it back, because she was staring at me with this look that she gets whenever she's suspicious.
"That's true. Riki-san isn't the murderer, so this case must be a suicide." he said.
"Oh gosh! I'm really late for school!" exclaimed Ran. "I have to leave now for school."
"Hmmm, now that the case is resolved, everyone can go. Thank you all for your time."
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Later, I called Hakase.
"Moshi moshi? Ah, Shinichi!"
"Hakase, I need you to research on the Tottori Serial Murder Case last year.."
